Russian citizen wanted by Interpol and detained in Ezeiza presented habeas corpus to prevent deportation

In the middle of the investigation the arrival of pregnant Russian women in Argentina give birth to their children and thus obtain permanent residence, situations that have Russian citizens as protagonists continue to occur. This Friday, a man of the same nationality, wanted by Interpol, arrived in the country. The Migration Directorate identified him as Valentin Kazantsev and announced his immediate expulsion. However, a few hours later, the man presented a habeas corpus through a lawyer and still remains in the country pending a justice definition.

Judicial sources specified GlobeLiveMedia that “a lawyer linked to previous presentations of pregnant Russian women requested that Kazantsev be allowed to enter for Humanitarian reasons”. And they added: “The proposition is that he does not want to go to war and he has already presented all the corresponding arguments for them to be analyzed and taken into account.”

Although late Saturday, the federal judge Luis Armelle decided that the Russian citizen I had to leave the country immediately and ordered the Airport Security Police (PSA) to put him back on a plane to Moscow this Sunday, now the magistrate must be issued again in this regard.

The judge who rejected Kazantsev’s entry is the same who on Friday granted temporary entry into the country for four of the pregnant Russian women who filed writs of habeas corpus after being detained at the airport. Even that same night, 14 other pregnant women of the same nationality also arrived and were accepted to enter Argentina.

The arrival of this 38-year-old man comes in the midst of a phenomenon denounced by the English newspaper The Guardianwhich has put a magnifying glass on a trend that has skyrocketed following the invasion of Ukraine by Russia and the sanctions to which the citizens of the aggressor country are subjected, even if for the moment it is not known whether the subject is linked to illegal organizations that they charge 35,000 USD to pregnant women so that they can give birth in Argentina and obtain false papers to obtain dual citizenship.

Consulted in this respect, the lawyer Christian Demian Rubilar Panasiuk -representing pregnant Russian women allowed to enter the country through habeas corpus- said Valentin Kazantsev “is not one” of the mafia organizations being investigated by the judiciary.

“He has his family here in Argentina. Here is his pregnant wife and son. As soon as they detained her in Ezeiza, she contacted her family in Russia, who immediately sent her all the documents proving that the passport presented to Migrations belonged to her. The authorities cannot in any case send him back to Moscow, even if they have doubts about the authenticity of his passport. In these cases, people are detained, not deported,” Rubilar Pansiuk explained to Infobase.

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The fact that Argentina does not require a visa and the freedom that having a second nationality gives them when it comes to moving around the world, are the main draws for Russian expectant mothers. In this context, the national director of migrations, Florencia Carignano, assured that a judicial investigation has been opened to put an end to what she described as “a lucrative business that promises Argentine passports to Russian parents”.

In 2022 they entered Argentina 10,500 Russian pregnant women, including 5,800 in the last three months of the year, They reported from Migrations. In recent days, the situation has resonated again since some women have been detained in Ezeiza. After being granted provisional admission, Armella said it was decided “in view of the advanced state of pregnancy and for humanitarian reasons”.

Russian women arrived in the country alone and all at the 33rd or 34th week of pregnancy. When questioned they implied that they would be sightseeing but when Migration inquires they find that they have no return ticket and cannot explain where they are going go sightseeing.

Although Carignano clarified that “it’s not a crime” to have a child in the country, people who have a nationality that is not part of Mercosur must “go to the consulate and obtain a visa and explain the reasons”that is to say steps that the women who remained detained for several hours at the airport had not taken.

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